An old abandoned farm house located on Hwy. 92 east of I-29 near the new water standpipe was destroyed Tuesday evening in a Halloween night fire that is being called suspicious by the Central Platte Fire Department. The fire department received a 911 call about the fire at about 8:18 p.m., according to 911 records. Robert O’Dell, assistant chief of the Central Platte Fire Department, said that initially 15 firefighters and five trucks responded to the scene, but later three of the trucks were sent back. Because the building, owned by a corporation, was abandoned and no lives were endangered, the firefighters worked to manage the fire and to keep it from spreading.
Flying by the seat of her broom, a witless witch was stopped in mid-flight by a telephone pole outside the home of Wayne and Nigel Adkins of Dearborn (pictured on the front page). Allegedly, a batch of bad witches’ brew was the cause of the wayward witch’s accidental intercept of the telephone pole. Actually, the Adkins family used a very tall ladder to place their homemade witch on the pole last week in anticipation of Halloween.
Mr. and Mrs. John Dameron of Kansas City, North announce the engagement of their daughter, Sara Elizabeth, to Ryan Stepp, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phill Stepp of Kansas City, North. The wedding has been planned for Nov. 25 at the First Baptist Church in North Kansas City.
